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Crescent City announces Kamome Festival week with visiting Japanese delegation and community events
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Director Viola outlined a weeklong Kamome Festival including an anime convention, a historical-film screening with a director Q&A, cardboard boat races, a Taste of Japan dinner with visiting delegates and the consul general, and a free Saturday festival featuring music and cultural demonstrations.
Crescent City’s Kamome Festival week will feature family and cultural events across the city, officials said during the Measure S Oversight Committee meeting on April 14.
Director Viola described a schedule that began with a Kamome Con anime screening and contests and continues with restaurant-week specials, trivia night, a screening of the film “Samurai in the Oregon Sky” (with a post-screening Q&A), cardboard boat races at the municipal pool, and a student emergency-preparedness event that will bring 400–500 third- through fifth-graders through four activities with first-responder demonstrations and a scheduled helicopter visit.
A Taste of Japan dinner on Friday is sold out; the event will host a 21-member delegation from Ruku/Takada (including local officials and a mayor) and the consul general for Japan, Viola said. Saturday will include a free festival at the cultural center with origami and calligraphy demonstrations, food trucks, and a Humboldt Taiko concert in the evening; the concert tickets were listed at $20 during the announcement.
Viola said the festival grew out of sister-city relationships and local school involvement, with the high-school Japan club participating in events and hosting visitors. “The Kamome Week started this last Saturday on the eleventh with the first annual Kamome Con,” Viola said, and the week’s schedule and tickets are available at kamomefestival.com.
The festival’s programming is already under way and will continue through the weekend; organizers will provide additional logistical details, including parade routing and closures, as vendor and event plans are finalized.
